Parmigiani Fleurier – TONDA PF 25th Anniversary Automatic 2022
TONDA PF
A Purist’s Delight for Those in the Know
With a judicious sense of detail, pattern, shape and curve, the Tonda PF is Parmigiani Fleurier's latest and most forward-looking collection. Released as the watchmaking brand celebrates its 25th anniversary, these new integrated bracelet timepieces take attention to craft, complication and streamlined aesthetics to a new high.
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One that doesn’t scream expensive but says excellence. One that is created to satisfy purists looking for a high-end, finespun timepiece. The Tonda PF collection is built around the most iconic in-house movements of the maison, running a wide gamut of complications, and culminating in a limited edition, all-platinum, award-winning split-seconds chronograph. The Tonda PF Collection
The Tonda PF collection inaugurates a new brand signature. The PF logo appears at 12 o’clock, nestled in a vertical, oval, double-edged appliqué with extensive finishings, a harbinger of the level of care put into the collection.
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PF Logo
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The indices of each timepiece are set across two levels of the dial, while the
Grain d’Orge guilloché dial pattern is the finest imaginable. Any smaller and it would have become invisible. Any larger, it would have become obvious, therefore defeating the purpose of this line: imperceptible refinement, entire dedication to exclusivity, modern permanence.
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Tonda PF is an entirely new collection of timepieces within the
Tonda family, featuring
Parmigiani Fleurier's most distinctive complications from the outset. This includes the
Tonda PF Micro-Rotor, a slim, pared-down, high-end two-hander with platinum micro-rotor.
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Tonda PF Chronograph features an almost flush dial and an integrated high frequency chronograph movement. The
Tonda PF Annual Calendar with retrograde date demonstrates how discretely and astutely advanced indications can be integrated into a pared-down design. All three models are available in steel with platinum hand-knurled bezel or entirely crafted in
18ct rose gold.
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Parmigiani Fleurier is grooming a
limited series of the
Tonda PF Split Seconds Chronograph. Fitting for a
25th Anniversary, its
25 pieces feature a dial, case and bracelet made of platinum
950, whose high frequency, openworked, split seconds chronograph movement is built out of solid gold.
Sartorial Savvy
Everywhere the eye lands on a Tonda PF, there's a particular texture, form, detail to be seen and enjoyed. This is not ornament, ostentation or opulence. This is a mature, sartorial approach to watchmaking, where cloth is replaced by metal and weaving by dial pattern. The cutting and fitting of the shoulders and waistline take on the form of case and bracelet. Like in a Neapolitan or Sicilian workshop, these are entirely focused on silhouette, fluidity, proportions and taste. Like any jacket that originates in those institutions of male elegance, the Tonda PF is tailored to withstand the passing of time and trends, and remain.
Click, to see the large size. ▶ BIG FOTOIts specific hands are made of solid gold. Slim and long, they're almost entirely openworked and of completely new design. The bezel, a direct heritage from the
Tonda collection, features a sleek, polished part and another that's been knurled by hand, and is crafted out of solid platinum
950 for the steel models. Rather than using the same steel as the rest of the case and bracelet,
Parmigiani Fleurier has elected to work with this highly precious metal. Not for the sake of exclusivity, but because it provides a better, shinier play with light and a more artisanal feeling once polished by hand.
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Tonda PF line deserves closer examination. It is not straight, but slightly bassiné, i.e. wider near the bezel and narrower on the wrist. This provides the overall design with a sense of increased slimness. The surface is horizontal-satin-finished all around as is the upper surface of the lugs.
MICRO-ROTOR
The Tonda PF Micro-Rotor measures 40 mm in diameter and owes its pure aesthetic to the uncluttered warm grey, matte guilloché dial. It inaugurates a new version of Parmigiani Fleurier's fundamental movement, the PF703.
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3 mm thick engine is selfwinding thanks to a full platinum micro-rotor. This diminutive oscillating weight is integrated inside the movement's structure rather than lying on top of it. The gain in height is considerable. This in turn allows the
Tonda PF Micro-Rotor to measure a mere
7.8 mm on the wrist, ensuring comfort and elegance.
Click, to see the large size. ▶ BIG FOTOIn an unusual and exclusive combination, it features hours, minutes and date. The date disc is the exact same color as the minute track's, creating a consistent colorway. Combined with its slimness and sleekness, this makes the
Tonda PF Micro-Rotor a refined everyday timepiece that can literally be worn on any occasion.
PF Chronograph
The 42 mm Tonda PF Chronograph exemplifies how a particular design can shift according to the specific requirements of a complication.
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The
5 Hz Caliber
PF070 is an integrated, high frequency, column wheel movement with small seconds and two registers. Integrating three counters on the
Tonda PF Chronograph’s thinly guilloché dial demands finesse.
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Parmigiani
Fleurier maintains an almost flush surface by using thinly sandblasted
minute track and counter outlines on the discrete blue dial.
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The pushers
have been fused with the profile of the
Tonda PF Chronograph's lugs. This model, along with the
Tonda PF Annual Calendar, premieres a new oscillating weight in
22ct rose gold, widely openworked with a central
PF logo medallion.
ANNUAL CALENDAR
The 42 mm Tonda PF Annual Calendar transcends the aesthetics that had thus far been associated with Parmigiani Fleurier's annual calendar movement. Caliber PF339 presents a retrograde date, day, month and 122-year moonphase as visible in both hemispheres.
Click, to see the large size. ▶ BIG FOTOAs they come on top of the three usual time-telling hands, the very nature of the general design of the collection was at stake.
Click, to see the large size. ▶ BIG FOTOBy pushing the date outwards onto the minute track and using discretely outlined counters on the warm grey guilloché dial,
Parmigiani Fleurier has managed to balance the pared-down equilibrium of the collection's design language and an elaborate layout.
Split Seconds Chronograph
At the top of the collection lies an exceptional timepiece. Limited to just 25 units as an homage to the maison’s 25th Anniversary, the Tonda PF Split Seconds Chronograph gives prominence to the best craftsmanship available at Parmigiani Fleurier.
Click, to see the large size. ▶ BIG FOTOThe case and bracelet of this timepiece are crafted in platinum. In a deserved exception to the collection's rule,
Parmigiani Fleurier has opted for a an extremely rare, solid platinum dial to match the deep luster and specific sheen of the case and bracelet, while its sandblasted finish maintains the matte, finely textured theme of the collection.
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PF361 is a new version of the manufacture's most high-end caliber, the
GPHG-awarded ChronOr. Three characteristics make this movement a truly exceptional creation. One, its mainplate and bridges are made of solid
18ct rose gold. Two, they're extensively openworked, satin-finished and beveled, even though the dial is a closed one. Three, it is an integrated, high frequency split seconds chronograph.
Click, to see the large size. ▶ BIG FOTOIt allows optimal timekeeping of two events starting at the same time, down to the
10th of a second.
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Press release - 2021
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